Holy crap man. On the one hand I'm incredibly sad we wont be getting this car in the states. On the other hand, maybe it's a good thing because I'd legitimately have to think about selling my car to buy one. Yes, i know that's crazy as my car is currently both much nicer and much faster than this thing, but my first car was a Celica All-Trac and i'm a huge sucker for WRC-adjacent vehicles.

It reminds me of a miniature Focus RS, but of course with Toyota build quality.

I'd love to have one of these as a runabout for back roads and bad weather conditions. Just a cool little pocket rocket. Reminds me of 90s Japanese sport compacts that I lusted over as a kid. Like a modern Pulsar GTI-R or Celica GT4.

Yeah, itís honestly a very unique vehicle. I canít think of another truly high performance 3-banger, though maybe ford had a somewhat more mild but still decent one? I love how 3-cylinder engines sound.

In addition, plenty of compact cars have been given the ďawd-turbo-manualĒ treatment and theyíre all very cool in my book, but I donít think Iíve ever seen that philosophy applied to a true SUB-compact car, despite the WRC having moved on to subcompacts a couple of decades ago. 2800 lbs is absurdly light for a car with this kind of hardware in 2020. My celica weighed 3200 lbs and that was from 1988. The Mazda 323 gtx is the only thing kinda approaching that weight and that had about 130 hp. and like the celica, itís from the 80s. This thing should have a similar power to weight ratio as an STI.